The Starry Sky Is an Endangered Space

The situation is alarming: the darkest and purest sky on the planet, in the heart of the Atacama desert in Chile, where the European Very Large Telescope (VLT) is located and where its 39-metre-diameter European successor, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), is being built, is threatened by a mega-industrial American project called INNA (Proyecto Integrado de Infraestructura Energetica para la Generación de Hidrógeno y Amoníaco Verde). This lar…